Peyroux v. Davis
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the commercial court of New Orleans. This is an action against the indorser of a promissory note, signed by O. J. Phillips, payable to the order of and indorsed by tbe defendant. It is dated at New Carthage, May 1st, 1836, and payable twelve months after-date, at tbe Bank of Orleans, in the city of New Orleans.
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Appeal from the commercial court of New Orleans. This is an action against the indorser of a promissory note, signed by O. J. Phillips, payable to the order of and indorsed by tbe defendant. It is dated at New Carthage, May 1st, 1836, and payable twelve months after-date, at tbe Bank of Orleans, in the city of New Orleans. The defendant excepted, that suit was pending between the same parties on this note in the circuit court of the United States for the State of Mississippi. Por answer, he pleads the general issue; and specially that the plaintiffs are not the owners of the note sued upon.…
1Opinion of the CourtMobphy, J.
delivei-ed the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment against the payee and indorser of a note drawn by one Cornelius J. Phillips, at New Oarthage, in tbe parish of Madison, and made payable at tbe Bank of Orleans, in this city.
The appellant urges that tbe court erred in overruling bis plea in abatement on account of tbe pendency of a suit against him for tbe same cause of action in tbe United States circuit court at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi. The question presented by this plea can hardly he considered as open in this court. Stone v. Vincent, 6 Mart. N. S. 517 ;…
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